Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interestingly enough, one often hears the opposite contention. This theory rests on the idea that medical schools have recently become "enlightened" and that in this new area science majors are viewed with some disdain as lacking the breadth, warmth, and empathy of humanities concentrators...
...third argument against a series of distribution requirements uses past experience to attack its underlying assumptions. Proponents of the plan believe, first, that students will seek a breadth of education without fiat, and, second, that faculty members will voluntarily give up departmental time to create and teach optional Gen Ed courses. But the recent history of Gen Ed shows that students who are not majoring in science simply do not take "hard" lab sciences voluntarily. Nor do professors in the scientific fields offer Gen Ed courses which would appeal to the non-concentrator. (There are virtually no upper level...
...they idle. Less grand than the grandest of an older generation, but also less ostentatious, they might be called the New Elegants. And they are not a numbered set revolving around a few Manhattan town houses and Newport mansions but a relaxed confraternity that extends the length and breadth of the land...
Those who would have more "depth" in their education, at the expense of "breadth," should not attend Harvard. Those who would be "led by the hand" and told what courses to take should not attend Harvard. However, those who would be liberally educated in order that they might best serve themselves and their fellow man are welcome at Harvard. Those who would seek the Truth by endeavoring to synthesize a liberal knowledge of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities are welcome at Harvard...
Actress Bancroft, the Bronxish beatnik of Broadway's Two For the Seesaw and the iron-willed mentor of The Miracle Worker, stretches her talents to astonishing breadth as Mrs. Jake Armitage, a British matron who believes that incessant procreation is what's right with the world, not what's wrong with it. This elemental drive brings her a swarm of children and several hard-pressed husbands, the last of whom (Peter Finch) jolts her out of bovine contentment by becoming a rich and famous screen writer...